This volume outlines a new approach to the study of linguistic hybridity and its translation in cross-cultural writing. By building on concepts from narratology, cognitive poetics, stylistics, and film studies, it explores how linguistic hybridity contributes to the reader's construction of the textual agents' world-view and how it can be exploited in order to encourage the reader to empathise with one world-view rather than another and, consequently, how translation shifts in linguistic hybridity can affect the world-view that the reader constructs.

Linguistic hybridity is a hallmark of cross-cultural texts such as postcolonial, migrant and travel writing as source and target language come into contact not only during the process of writing these texts, but also often in the (fictional or non-fictional) story-world. Hence, translation is frequently not only the medium, but also the object of representation. By focussing on the relation between medium and object of representation, the book complements existing research that so far has neglected this aspect. The book thus not only contributes to current scholarly debates - within and beyond the discipline of translation studies - concerned with cross-cultural writing and linguistic hybridity, but also adds to the growing body of translation studies research concerned with questions of voice and point of view.

About the Author

Susanne Klinger is Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.

Reviews

'This book is a valuable contribution to the increasing body of research on the translation of linguistic hybridity. Apart from translation scholars, narratologists and researchers interested in the interfaces between linguistics and literature will find it a useful addendum to existing scholarship.' - Dr. Simo K. Maatta, University of Helsinki, LINGUIST List

Book Information
ISBN 9780367599935
Author Susanne Klinger
Format Paperback
Page Count 198
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 390g